And then there is Fazioli, a tiny piano maker founded in 1978 in the northern Italian town of Sacile.

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Schulz, novelist John Steinbeck, piano maker Henry E.

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Dissatisfied with the piano maker's efforts, and being an inventor as well as a musician, in 1940 he designed and patented an "accelerated action, " in which the keys are lighter to the touch and return even more quickly than on a standard piano.

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His status is so well-known that iconic piano-maker Steinway specially commissioned a Lang Lang-branded piano.

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Bechstein, a piano-maker, which shows just how far German companies will go in order to maintain quality.

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